Thread: D1 axle breakage

You will be fine. My 90 runs the same axles, as your D1, and I run 33's all the time, and 35's very occasionally.

I have only broken 1 long rear and thats it so far!

You can break any axle in a rover. Even Maxidrives.

It depends on the way you drive

TIM.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

You can break any axle in a rover. Even Maxidrives.

Tooth pics break and thats what rover axles are

Originally Posted by weeds

Just in the LROC TT crowd (not necessarily on LROC TT trips though), there has been heaps of LR 10 spline rears broken, a couple of LR 24 splines in D1 and D2 broken, 1 twisted Maxi Drive in a Salisbury, 1 twisted Maxidrive with a Defender P38 rear, 1 snapped Maxidrive in a D1 front and 1 snapped MaxiDrive in a Salisbury rear.

I'd be more worried about classic rear lower links though. Even the HD ones can fold up, but the LR ones do it fairly easily.

Does that make the LROC TT crowd experts at breaking axles?

Roger

Originally Posted by Xtreme

Does that make the LROC TT crowd experts at breaking axles?

Roger

No, not at all. Dave Ashcroft is the expert at breaking axles. I talk about this crowd only they are the people that I usually drive with on club trips and on social drives away from the club.

Actually, you'd be surprised sometimes at what it doesn't take to break an axle.

The D1 front Maxidrive was on a non-TT. A muddy wet slippery as all getout hill climb and the wheel just stopped wedged in a rut and the engine torque just snapped it.

Salisbury rear Maxidrive was done on a hard dry gritty trail that I slipped over on. During a snatch recovery, the strap pulled down on the back of the Defender which was on the crest, which loaded it up with enough traction to snap the axle while the diffed out vehicle being recovered remained stuck.